41st Premier of the Australian State of Victoria 1982 - 90. Â Not to be confused with his father of the same name who was the 34th Premier in the 1950s.
Our picture source gives details of his life.
He suffered a severe stroke on 10 December 2019 and died, aged 88 years, on 23 December 2019 in the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was in Plot E, Grave 4089, in the Preston General Cemetery, 900 Plenty Rd, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Cain
According to Wikipedia the State of Victoria was founded in 1851 so this plaq...
Born Wiltshire. Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.  1997 entered the House of Lords as Baron Hurd of Westwell.
Lawyer and Lord Chancellor. Born Alexander Wedderburn, probably in Edinburgh. Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1757, he served as Lord Chancellor from 1793 to 1801. Died in Stoke Poges, Buc...
Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile...
Chairman of the Savoy Group 1984 - 1994. Born Berkhamsted, died Andover.
The oldest of the three royal boroughs in England, it was formed in 1965 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames (which itself was a Royal Borough), Malden and Coombe and Su...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them